Plaster of Paris gets hot.

**Spacecadet** · 13 October 2009, 09:53

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/8303246.stm

Poor kid.

I hate to think what her and her parents have been through

**Lockhouse** · 13 October 2009, 09:59

Did no-one think of smashing it with a hammer?

**EternalOptimist** · 13 October 2009, 10:05

it happened at the same school the week before, but that time the kid got their hands out in time.

**Darren_Test** · 13 October 2009, 10:09

OMG....16k compensation....???
I donot think even 1billion will compensate what she lost..

**BoredBloke** · 13 October 2009, 10:09

16.5k for that level of injuries - This poor sod is going to struggle to hold down a job (will struggle to hold anything now) and all they get is 16.5k.

**Spacecadet** · 13 October 2009, 10:13

Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post

16.5k for that level of injuries - This poor sod is going to struggle to hold down a job (will struggle to hold anything now) and all they get is 16.5k.

The school was fined £16.5k

The kid probably got a lot more in compensation from the insurance company

**BoredBloke** · 13 October 2009, 10:14

"Speaking outside the court, the girl's solicitor, Stephen Hill, said his client was a "remarkable young woman" who hoped to go to university and become a teacher working with nursery or primary aged children. "

That's not going to cause nightmares is it!

**Churchill** · 13 October 2009, 10:55

Jo Anderson, prosecuting for the HSE, said the girl had been told by her teacher to put her hands into clay to make a mould.

She was then supposed to pour the liquid plaster into the clay mould. Instead she put her hand up to the wrist into the bucket of plaster.

Hello? Anyone else read this bit?

**EternalOptimist** · 13 October 2009, 10:57

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Hello? Anyone else read this bit?

yes, and it happened the week before, same school. possibly a prank gone wrong

Plaster of Paris gets hot.